Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.

Wind tunnels were key in the development and validation of the laws of aerodynamics. In 1889, Charles Renard, a French aeronautical engineer, became the first person to reasonably predict the power needed for sustained flight.

* 1990 – Clarence Johnson, American aeronautical engineer ( b. 1910 )

* 1898 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer and test pilot ( d. 1983 )

* Nevil Shute ( Nevil Shute Norway ), the Ealing-born aeronautical engineer and novelist lived at Pond Head on Hayling Island during World War II.

* 1912 – Francis Rogallo, American aeronautical engineer ( d. 2009 )

Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J. B. S.

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

In 1960, aeronautical engineer Tim Dinsdale filmed a hump crossing the water leaving a powerful wake.

* Understanding Flight, by David Anderson and Scott Eberhardt, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-136377-7 – The authors are a physicist and an aeronautical engineer.

The Mach number is named after Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, a designation proposed by aeronautical engineer Jakob Ackeret.

His father was an early aeronautical engineer for Sopwith aircraft during and after World War I and invented a tensometer for setting the tension on aircraft rigging wires.

* 1919 – Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer ( d. 2008 )

It may be of relevance that in 1985 the Smithsonian Institution commissioned aeronautical engineer Paul MacCready to build a half-scale working model of Quetzalcoatlus northropi.

* 15-John Stamper, 77, British aeronautical engineer.

In 1926, Amundsen and 15 other men ( including Ellsworth, Riiser-Larsen, Oscar Wisting, and the Italian air crew led by aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile ) made the first crossing of the Arctic in the airship Norge designed by Nobile.

* Beatrice Shilling, aeronautical engineer, born Waterlooville

* October 27 – Giovanni Battista Caproni, Italian aeronautical, civil, and electrical engineer, aircraft designer, and industrialist ( b. 1886 )

** Francis Rogallo, American aeronautical engineer ( d. 2009 )

* June 30 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer ( d. 2003 )

* Luigi Stipa, Italian aeronautical, hydraulic, and civil engineer and aircraft designer ( d. 1992 )

* November 21 – Walter Stuart Diehl, American naval officer and aeronautical engineer ( b. 1893 )

* Luigi Stipa, Italian aeronautical, hydraulic, and civil engineer and aircraft designer ( b. 1900 )

** Juan de la Cierva, Spanish civil engineer, aviator, and aeronautical engineer.

The Soviet Union assisted German air forces by allowing them to use signals broadcast by the Soviet radio station at Minsk allegedly " for urgent aeronautical experiments ".

* the aeronautical mobile satellite ( route ) service, or AMS ( R ) S, through compliance with the Standards and Recommended Practices ( SARPs ) established by the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO )

The first practical, controllable glider was designed and built by the British scientist and pioneer George Cayley who many recognise as the first aeronautical engineer.

For example, in the United States, signal leakage from cable television systems is regulated by the FCC, since cable signals use the same frequencies as aeronautical and radionavigation bands.

Airspeed Limited was established to build aeroplanes in 1931 in York, England, by A. H. Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway ( the aeronautical engineer and famous writer, who used his forenames as his pen-name ).

The aeronautical section of the company was named Hamburger Flugzeugbau, therefore the first planes it produced had the code " Ha ", but in September 1937 the aviation subsidiary was renamed Abteilung Flugzeugbau der Schiffswerft Blohm & Voss which was later replaced by " BV ".

Drawings were prepared by George Challenger for an aircraft based on a successful design by Henri Farman whose dimensions had been published in the aeronautical press.

On 25 September 2004, Branson announced the signing of a deal under which a new space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, will license the technology behind Spaceship One — funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and designed by legendary American aeronautical engineer and visionary Burt Rutan — to take paying passengers into suborbital space.

The Aerodrome was modified and flown a few hundred feet by Glenn Curtiss in 1914, as part of his attempt to fight the Wright brothers ' patent, and as an effort by the Smithsonian to rescue Langley's aeronautical reputation.

* Jonathan Edward Caldwell ( born 1883 ), aeronautical engineer whose designs included an ornithopter, which would have flown by flapping its wings.

It was subsequently planned and led by Doolittle, a famous civilian aviator and aeronautical engineer before the war.

In the UK, maritime search and rescue is coordinated by HM Coastguard while aeronautical rescue is delegated through the UK Ministry of Defence to the Royal Air Force, and land-based operations are usually coordinated by the local Police force.

In 1964 the two divisions ( aeronautical and motorcycle ) split to become two independent companies as a result of the wide ownership by Fiat in Italian industry.

In the end, by establishing their rigorous system of designing, wind-tunnel testing of airfoils and flight testing of full-size prototypes, the Wrights not only built a working aircraft but also helped advance the science of aeronautical engineering.

The collection comprises copies of papers written by Wallis in the course of his aeronautical research.

During World War II, he did aeronautical engineering for the U. S. Navy, also recruiting Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp to work at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Pennsylvania.

* Fundamentals of Flight, Richard S. Shevell, Prentice-Hall International Editions, ISBN 0-13-332917-8 – This book is primarily intended as a text for a one semester undergraduate course in mechanical or aeronautical engineering, although its sections on theory of flight are understandable with a passing knowledge of calculus and physics.

At a time when all other engineering institutions were offering conventional courses in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering at the undergraduate level, Mr. Rajam launched the experiment of introducing for the first time in the country totally new areas of specialisation in Engineering, namely aeronautical engineering, automobile engineering, electronics engineering, and instrument technology, the entrants to these disciplines being science graduates.